This is a photograph of the Gale block on the east side of Kansas Avenue, between 6th and 7th Streets, in Topeka, Kansas. The Gale block was used by the Kansas Legislature in the 1860s. Many of the buildings shown in the photograph were built during the Kansas territorial period. The photograph was taken by W. P. Bliss, Photographic Car, sometime between 1863 and 1865.

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This is a photograph of the Gale block on the east side of Kansas Avenue, between 6th and 7th Streets, in Topeka, Kansas. The Gale block was used by the Kansas Legislature in the 1860s. Many of the buildings shown in the photograph were built during the Kansas territorial period. The photograph was taken by W. P. Bliss, Photographic Car, sometime between 1863 and 1865.